Create a JavaScript Action

🚀 Use this template to bootstrap the creation of a JavaScript action with tests, linting, a validation workflow and publishing.

Create an action from this template

Click the Use this Template and provide the new repo details for your action

Code in Master

$ npm install

$ npm test

 PASS  ./index.test.js
  ✓ throws invalid number (3ms)
  ✓ wait 500 ms (504ms)
  ✓ test runs (95ms)

...

Change actions.yml

The actions.yml contains defines the inputs and output for your action.

Update the actions.yml with your name, description, inputs and outputs for your action.

See the documentation

Change the Code

Most toolkit and CI/CD operations involve async operations so the action is run in an async function.

const core = require('@actions/core');
...

async function run() {
  try { 
      ...
  } 
  catch (error) {
    core.setFailed(error.message);
  }
}

run()

See the toolkit documentation for the various packages.

Usage:

The uses path will be the org and repo where you create your action

uses: actions/javascript-action@v1
with:
  milliseconds: 1000